Maison Picassiette, the ceramic house
The Maison Picassiette – House of Millions Pieces in Chartres is entirely decorated with mosaics made from salvaged fragments of crockery and glass
The Maison Picassiette – House of Millions Pieces in Chartres is entirely decorated with mosaics made from salvaged fragments of crockery and glass
Eugene Boudin, a sailor’s son who became one of the great Masters of Normandy seascapes and beach scenes and a precursor of Impressionism
Maison de Monet in Giverny, the house and gardens the Impressionist Master transformed into a work of art and where he lived and painted for 43 years
The small town of Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, was once a quiet village where Van Gogh spent the last 70 days of his life and painted 78 canvases
The poet Jean Cocteau is buried in Saint-Blaise-des-Simples Chapel in Milly-la-Forêt, a chapel he decorated during the restoration work of 1959
Hôtel Salé, one of the finest mansions in the Marais built with money collected from the salt tax, hence its name, is today home to the Picasso Museum
Castel Beranger, Paris’ most emblematic and first Art Nouveau building and one of the French architect Hector Guimard’s masterpieces
Paris Metro has 303 stations, many of which have been redecorated and refurbished to promote the monuments or districts they serve
Canuts were the silk-weavers who worked and lived in the Quartier de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon, the French capital of silk-industry from 1536 to 1914
Pont Mirabeau, a Paris bridge made famous when Guillaume Apollinaire published a poem after his break up with the painter Marie Laurencin
The Maeght Foundation, a contemporary art museum founded in 1964 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence with the collaboration of some of the most talented artists of the 20th century
Vincent Van Gogh admitted himself to the asylum at the Monastery St. Paul de Mausole on the outskirts of St. Remy-de-Provence where he spent his last years